https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-24-trump-coup-has-failed/

EXCERPT… Trump’s second term was always whether he would bully the country into an effective monarchy, or fall prey to the laws of political gravity.

I’m taking a pundit risk by saying that we now have that answer, after one month in office: Trump’s cooked.

His failure has followed the usual direction of political overreach. Brave dissidents from the political opposition, corporate America, or his own coalition didn’t suddenly rise to the challenge. It started from the bottom up, as the governed gradually but definitively withdrew their consent, giving space for those we somehow call “leaders” to distance themselves.